NBA Jam Tournament Edition
NBA Jam Tournament EditionInstruction Booklet----------------------------------(2)CONTENTSJam It Home!...................3Before You Lace Up The Shoes...4Customize The Game.............8Time To Hit The Boards!.......12Substitutions.................14Jam Controls..................15Offensive Chart...............21Defensive Chart...............22Wham It, Slam It, Jam It!.....23Player Attributes.............25----------------------------------(3)JAM IT HOME!Cut loose, drive for the net, and give it all you've got! With NBA JAMTOURNAMENT EDITION, you're experiencing wham, bam hoop action likeyou've never seen before!NBA JAM TOURNAMENT EDITION lets you wham it and slam it with rim-rockingsuperstars like Scottie Pippen, Patrick Ewing, Dominique Wilkins, HakeemOlajuwon, Chris Mullin and Karl Malone! They're all here: the greatestsuperstars of the sport that has become the greatest game on the globe!Blast off with the Rockets and the Blazers, display some roundball Magicand Heat, fly high with the Hawks and the Hornets! All 27 NBA teams arerepresented as you take to the boards in one-on-one, two-on-two, ortwo-on-one competition!Prepare for full-scale competition with a Jam-packed practice session!Hit the hardwood with slams and turbo-charged Jams! Take the three-pointshot from the far end of the court, or Jam it home from under youropponent's net!You think you know the game? Think again! With NBA JAM TOURNAMENT EDITIONyou're entering a whole new world of rim-ramming, hard-hitting hoopexcitement!----------------------------------(4)BEFORE YOU LACE UP THE SHOESLOADING:1. Make sure the power switch is OFF.2. Insert the NBA JAM TOURNAMENT EDITION Game Pak as described in yourSUPER NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM instruction manual. If you wish toplay a three or four-player game, plug in a Super Multitap or a SuperLink (sold separately) at this time as described in its instructionmanual. NOTE: NBA JAM TOURNAMENT EDITION supports only the SuperMultitap or the Super Link.3. Turn the power switch ON.When the NBA JAM TOURNAMENT EDITION title screen appears, press the STARTBUTTON. [NOTE: There are four different player positions in NBA JAMTOURNAMENT EDITION. Players 1 and 2 are teammates, and players 3 and 4 areteammates who oppose them.]HEAD TO HEAD mode places two human players on opposite teams. The personwith controller 1 is player 1, but the person with controller 2 is player 3.You can play one-on-one, two-on-two, or two-on-one competitive games.----------------------------------(5)TEAM GAME mode puts both players on the same team (2 players vs. computer),making the person with controller 1 player 1, and the person with controller2 player 2. It's you and a friend against the computer!PRACTICE mode, exclusive to NBA JAM TOURNAMENT EDITION, enables you to workextensively on perfecting your passing and Jamming skills before you take theminto HEAD TO HEAD or TEAM GAME competition! Workable with one player plus aCPU teammate or with two human players, PRACTICE mode allows you to set upspecialty drills, and to review and refine your dunks before you team upagainst the NBA's best!OPTIONS mode lets you customize your NBA JAM Tournament Edition game playin a wide variety of ways! (For additional details on this mode, seeCUSTOMIZE THE GAME on page 8)If you are using a multi-player adaptor, you will be asked to select thecontrollernumber corresponding to the player you wish to control: controller 1 is player1, controller 2 is player 2, and so on. Everyone who wishes to participateshould then press the START BUTTON on their respective controllers.Whether you are using a multi-player adaptor or not, you will then be askedif you wish to enter your initials for record-keeping. Use the CONTROL PADand the A, B, X, Y, or START BUTTON to choose.----------------------------------(6)This decision affects all players; no player can enter initials if "no" isselected. If "yes" is selected, each player will then be asked to enterhis/her initials. Use the CONTROL PAD to move the cursor to the desiredletter, then press the A, B, X, or Y BUTTON to select. If the initialsentered are one of the sixteen in memory, your record will be immediatelyrecalled. NBA JAM TOURNAMENT EDITION's record-keeping feature stores eachplayer's record, ranking, winning percentage, and more!In all but the OPTIONS mode, you will then be asked to choose your NBAteam. Use the CONTROL PAD to highlight the team you want. Both playerscan pick the same team. Each team is comprised of two players from aroster of three or more NBA teammates. In addition to the 27 NBA teams,NBA JAM TOURNAMENT EDITION features a rookie team made up entirely ofNBA newcomers. As with regular teams, both players can select rookie teams.Rookie team games do NOT count towards a season.Notice that for every player featured in NBA JAM TOURNAMENT EDITION, afield of statistical ability rankings appears at the bottom of the screenbelow the player's portrait. These figures rate each player on a scale of0 to 9 in eight important playing categories.----------------------------------(7)Attributes rated are:[LABELED SCREENSHOT OF PLAYERS WITH RATINGS]Speed: How peppy the player is.3 Pt: Rates how well the player hits the hoop from "downtown".Dunk: A ranking of what kind of Jammer the player is.Pass: How accurate a player's passing game is.Power: The power of a player is important in terms of both his strength andhis ability to withstand injury.Steal: Rates a player's ability to strip the ball from opponents.Block: How good is the player at rejecting and deflecting attempted shots?The block rating tells no lie!Clutch: Tells you whether this player comes through when you need him most,or if El Foldo is more his style.----------------------------------(8)Once you've highlighted your team, use the A, B, X, or Y BUTTON to scrollthrough the available player combinations on that team, then press the STARTBUTTON to lock in your choice.CUSTOMIZE THE GAME!The options screen provides you with a wide variety of ways to affect game play:TIMER SPEED: The speed of the clock may be set from 1 (very slow) to 5 (veryfast).DRONE DIFFICULTY: The competitive intelligence of your computer controlledopponents may be set from 1 (not so smart) to 5 (very smart).TAG MODE: In a one-player or one human per team game, NBA JAM TOURNAMENT EDITIONallows you to select how you wish to control your teammate. OFF is the default.As in the arcade version, you control one player the entire game, and thecomputer controls your teammate (unless a human player should "jump in" withhis START BUTTON). ON enables you to control both the ball-handling and themovement of whichever player on your team has the ball. The "tag" occurs whenyour teammate gains possession, so if a pass is intercepted, you retain controlof the player who passed.----------------------------------(9)COMPUTER ASSISTANCE: Set on or off. When on, this option button will causethe computer to make sure that games remain close by cooling off any teamthat gets too big a lead! Turn off to give both teams a "fair shake".CONTROLLER CONFIGURATION: This mode offers you six different ways of settingup the BUTTONS on your controller for various pass, shoot, and turbo options.VIEW/DELETE RECORDS: Activating this option will take you to the record screen.NBA JAM TOURNAMENT EDITION stores records and stats for up to 16 differentplayers! At some point, however, you may wish to make room for a new one. Toerase a record, use the CONTROL PAD to highlight the desired record and pressthe A BUTTON. You will then be asked to confirm whether you truly wish todelete this record. Press the START BUTTON to abort your deletion, or the YBUTTON to erase the record. Press the START BUTTON to return to the OPTIONSscreen.SPECIAL FEATURES allows you to make additional adjustments to six game features:1. TOURNAMENT MODE. When on, this disallows all power-ups and cheats, and turnscomputer assistance off. Notice that when Tournament Mode is on, all otheroptions in the special features menu are not available, and that ComputerAssistance is automatically turned off on the regular options screen.----------------------------------(10)2. SHOT CLOCK. May be adjusted from 5 seconds to 24 seconds.3. OVERTIME. May be adjusted from 1 minute to 3 minutes.4. HOT SPOTS. When on, will create visible hot spots with different pointvalues. Shoot or Jam from a hot spot and score bonus points! When yourplayer lands on one, you'll hear a sound and the color of the spot willchange.5. POWER-UP ICONS. These will enable a player to instantaneously (andtemporarily) increase his dunking ability, cause a player to remaintemporarily "on fire", increase his ability to intercept a pass...and more!Available to be picked up by a human player or the CPU, they appear on screenat random intervals. Here's a directory of available icons you'll find inNBA JAM TOURNAMENT EDITION:[3] Increases a player's ability to make the three-point outside shot![D] Allows players to perform Monster Jams from anywhere on the court.----------------------------------(11)[S] Increases a player's overall speed![P] Increases a player's power[T] Temporarily gives a player unlimited turbo![F] Causes a player to catch fire, increasing his ability to sink thoseincredible slams![B] The Bomb flattens everyone on the court except the player who collects it.6. JUICE MODE. Talk about high-speed slamming! Turning up the juice increasesall players' overall speed by a factor of 1 to 4. Try hitting turbo when yourplayer's been juiced up to a factor of four! Awesome!NOTE: Hot Spot or Power-Up Icon games will NOT count toward your seasonrecord.----------------------------------(12)Once you've made whatever options changes you wish to make, press the STARTBUTTON to lock in thos options.After the first and third quarters, the computer will provide coaching tips tohelp you improve your game!After the second quarter, the computer will review the players' statisticsfor the first half.TIME TO HIT THE BOARDS!An NBA JAM TOURNAMENT EDITION game is divided into 4 quarters of three minuteseach. A game begins with a tipoff, as two players leap for the ball in orderto gain control. Possession of the ball at the beginning of the second andfourth quarters goes to the home team (team two), and to the visiting team(team one) at the start of the third quarter, regardless of who wins theinitial tip or who possesses the ball when the previous quarter ended. Thehome team defends the basket at the right side of the screen and scoresagainst the visiting team's basket at the left side of the screen.----------------------------------(13)[SCREENSHOT]VISITING TEAM-----------------)[SCREENSHOT](---------------------HOME TEAMThe object of the game is to have outscored your opponents when the finalbuzzer sounds. A basket counts for two points when it is shot from insidethe three-point line, and three points when shot from behind it. Adefensive player can block a shot, but only when the ball is on theupward part of its arc. If it is touched by a defender on its downwardflight, a goaltending call is made, and points are awarded whether ornot the basket was going to go in. Once the ball touches the rim however,it can be grabbed by any player, either offensive or defensive.----------------------------------(14)To make identifying the ball-handler easy, whenever a player has possessionof the ball, an orange basketball indicator will appear behind his nameat the top of the screen. If nobody has possession - the ball is in the airor has been knocked away - there is no indicator.If a player scores three baskets in a row, he is "on fire!" During this time,he has unlimited turbo, and a much better chance of sinking shots fromanywhere on the floor! Only one player can be "on fire" at a time. Being"on fire" lasts for four baskets by the "on fire" player or until thenext opposing basket goes in, meaning that a teammate can score withoutdisrupting the fire. The ball glows when the player on fire holds it andsmokes when he shoots it!SUBSTITUTIONSAfter the 1st, 2nd and 3rd quarters, NBA JAM TOURNAMENT EDITION allows youto make player substitutions from your team roster. Change the playercombination by pressing the A, B, X, or Y BUTTON. When you see the twoplayers on screen you want in the game, press the START BUTTON to beginthe next quarter. [NOTE: When a player completes a season by defeating all27----------------------------------(15)NBA teams, expanded rosters become available for some teams.]Injury: A progressive assessment of a player's health, this ranking willincrease as a player sustains increased injury throughout a game. Aninjured player will suffer degraded play in all attribute areas, so youmay wish to substitute a healthy player for an injured one. Sitting aplayer out for a quarter will completely restore his health.JAM CONTROLSCONTROL PAD: Moves your player up and down the court. When any player isoff-screen, his position is marked by an arrow with his player numberand color, the height showing where he is vertically on the court, anddistance from the edge showing how far off-screen he is.[SCREENSHOT WITH OFF-SCREEN INDICATOR ARROW LABELED]----------------------------------(16)SHOOT/BLOCK: When your team has the ball, the SHOOT button will cause you(and on a one-human team, your computer teammate as well) to shoot forthe basket. Your player releases the ball when you release the button.Releasing the ball at the apex of your leap gives your shot greateraccuracy, but releasing it quickly or very slowly can often prevent aleaping defender from blocking or stealing the ball. Tapping SHOOTquickly several times executes a head-fake which may trick the defense,but it stops your dribble so you must either pass or shoot the ballbefore you can move!When your team does not have the ball, SHOOT/BLOCK causes your player tojump up for a block. Timing is crucial to denying the shot. Jump tooearly and the shooter can wait until you fall out of the way, jumptoo late and the shooter can shoot it over you! Many times your defenderwill get a piece of the ball without rejecting the shot completely. Theball will flash white whenever your defensive player makes contact withit.----------------------------------(17)PASS/STEAL: When your team has the ball, the pass button will cause you(and on a one-human team, your computer teammate) to pass the ball to histeammate. But a passed ball is easily intercepted by a defender, so lookbefore you pass!When your team does not have the ball, tapping this button causes yourplayer to swipe at the ball in the hopes of either stealing it or knockingot out of an opponent's hands.TURBO: TURBO causes your player to run much faster than he normally would(determined by his attributes), whether on offense or defense, allowingyou to blow by a defender, or to step around a pick and block a shot!Unfortunately, your player has only a limited amount of turbo power,indicated by the meter under your player's name. As you use it, the meterruns down, but when you release TURBO,----------------------------------(18)it begins to regenerate. A player using Turbo can be spotted by his coloredshoes! When a player is "on fire," he has unlimited turbo until his fireis put out, but to use the turbo, the button must still be held![SCREENSHOT WITH TURBO METER AND PLAYER USING TURBO LABELED]Tapping TURBO several times quickly causes your player to grab and protectthe ball, a move which can often knock defenders away and give you a cleanshot at the basket.----------------------------------(19)TURBO + SHOOT/BLOCK: When your player has the ball near the basket, pressingthese two buttons causes you (and on a one-human team, your computer teammate)to go for the Jam, slam-dunking the ball into the basket. There are manyspectacular "Ultra-Jams" that can be executed, depending on a number offactors such as the player's dunking ability and position. Your player willonly Jam if he is moving, however, so be sure to drive towards the holeif you want to slam!When your team doesn't have the ball, pressing these two buttons makes yourplayer go for a super block, jumping much higher than he ordinarily would!----------------------------------(20)TURBO + PASS/STEAL: Pressing these buttons will cause the ball-handler toexecute a much harder and safer pass than the PASS button by itself. Oftenthese will take the forms of behind-the-back, or bounce passes.When your player doesn't have the ball, pressing these buttons togethermakes your player shove. When he connects, it knocks a player out of theway. Be careful, because you can knock down your own player, too!Defensively the shove is a useful tool for stealing the ball, bringingdown rebounds, and stopping "easy Jams"! Offensively, the shove is agood way to clear an area so a teammate has a clear shot at the basket.START: START pauses or resumes a game.On the following pages are offensive and defensive charts for quick andeasy reference.----------------------------------(21)OFFENSIVE CONTROLSWhen player has possession of the ball (default settings are in parentheses).                TAP             HOLD            PRESS +                BUTTON          BUTTON          TURBO-------------------------------------------------------SHOOT/          Head fake       Jump shot       DunkBLOCK(A or BBUTTON)-------------------------------------------------------PASS/           Pass            Pass            Super-STEAL                                           pass(X or YBUTTON)-------------------------------------------------------TURBO           Protect         Run(L or R         Ball            fasterTRIGGER)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(22)DEFENSIVE CONTROLSWhen player does not have possession of the ball (default settings are inparentheses).                TAP             HOLD            PRESS +                BUTTON          BUTTON          TURBO-------------------------------------------------------SHOOT/          Block           Block           Super-BLOCK                                           block(A or BBUTTON)-------------------------------------------------------PASS/           Steal           Steal           ShoveSTEAL(X or YBUTTON)-------------------------------------------------------TURBO                           Run(L or R                         fasterTRIGGER)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(23 and 24)WHAM IT, SLAM IT, JAM IT!Practice your turbo-charged Jamming and slamming and see if you canduplicate some of these breathtaking moves![SCREENSHOTS OF VARIOUS DUNKS]----------------------------------(25)PLAYER ATTRIBUTESNBA JAM TOURNAMENT EDITION includes all the greatest superstars of all 27NBA teams, each ranked on a scale of 0 to 9 in eight important categoriesof ability!EASTERN CONFERENCEATLANTIC DIVISION[SHOTS OF TEAMS WITH PLAYERS FROM TEAM SCREEN]Boston Celtics: Wilkins, BrownMiami Heat: Rice, MinerNew Jersey Nets: Coleman, Anderson----------------------------------(26)New York Knicks: Ewing, OakleyOrlando Magic: Hardaway, GrantPhiladelphia 76ers: Bradley, WeatherspoonWashington Bullets: Webber, Cheaney----------------------------------(27)EASTERN CONFERENCECENTRAL DIVISIONAtlanta Hawks: Blaylock, WillisCharlotte Hornets: Mourning, JohnsonChicago Bulls: Pippen, Armstrong----------------------------------(28)Cleveland Cavaliers: Price, DaughertyDetroit Pistons: Dumars, MillsIndiana Pacers: Miller, SmitsMilwaukee Bucks: Baker, Day----------------------------------(29)WESTERN CONFERENCEMIDWEST DIVISIONDallas Mavericks: Mashburn, JacksonDenver Nuggets: Mutombo, Abdul-RaufHouston Rockets: Olajuwon, Thorpe----------------------------------(30)Minnesota Timberwolves: Rider, LaettnerSan Antonio Spurs: Robinson, RodmanUtah Jazz: Malone, Stockton----------------------------------(31)WESTERN CONFERENCEPACIFIC DIVISIONGolden State Warriors: Gugliotta, SprewellLos Angeles Clippers: Richardson, RobertsLos Angeles Lakers: Divac, Peeler----------------------------------(32)Phoenix Suns: Manning, JohnsonPortland Trail Blazers: Drexler, RobinsonSeattle Supersonics: Kemp, PaytonSacremento Kings: Richmond, Webb---------------------------------